Inverleith House
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Inverleith House is a contemporary art gallery situated within Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden in the suburb of Inverleith.[1]
History
Designed in 1774 by David Henderson for the Rocheid family[2], Inverleith House was the official residence of successive Regius Keepers (directors) of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh until it became the founding home of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art[3], from 1960 to 1984[4]. Since 1986 it has run a continuous programme of temporary exhibitions spanning visual art and botanical science under the auspices of the Garden, which recognises the need for art as well as science in our appreciation and understanding of the natural world, making it pre-eminent amongst botanic gardens today, in this respect.
Inverleith House was refurbished in 1990 and again in 2004, to improve visitor access and to introduce new educational facilities, with support from National Lottery Funds administered by The Scottish Arts Council, which also supports the exhibitions programme. This award-winning programme invites artists of major international standing to exhibit in Scotland for the first time and presents work by those based in Scotland on an international stage, attracting new audiences for contemporary art. Its twentieth anniversary was celebrated in 2006 with and exhibition of botanical drawings from South India (1826-1853) and solo exhibitions by Roni Horn, Rudolf Stingel, Robert Ryman, and Douglas Gordon[5].
This award-winning programme invites artists of major international standing to exhibit in Scotland for the first time and presents work by those based in Scotland on an international stage, attracting new audiences for contemporary art.
Publications
Baumann, Daniel, Black, Karla, Hertling, Pati, Hayley Tomkin ‘Autobuilding’, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2011
Behlen, Beatrice, Garginlo, Vincenzo, Hardman-Jones, Jerry, Hubbard, David, Kosaniuk, Hjdla, Steinfeld Daniela, Alan Charlton, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2002
Black, Karla, Munder, Heike, Nachwort, Hans Annette, Nesbitt, Paul and Stanley, Micheal, Karla Black, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2010
Bradely, Will, Simon Periton, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh in collaboration with Sadie Coles HQ, The Modern Institute Glasgow and Walter Koenig Books London, 2003
Cuthbert, Caroline, Rory McEwen ‘The Botanical Paintings’, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh in association with The Serpantine Gallery, London, 1988
Dean, Tacita, Nesbitt Paul, and Vettese, Anglea, Roni Horn, Angie and Emily Dickinson, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2006
Foster, Hal, Francis, Marc, Richard Hamilton ‘Protest Pictures’, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2008 Francis, Mark, CY Twombly, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2002
Frauenfelf/Basel, Robert Ryman at Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2006 Giorno, John and De Salvo, Donna, Andy Warhol ‘ Private Drawings from the 1950s’, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2003
Harrison, Sarah and S. Pounde, Amy, Rudolf Stingel ‘Lourve (after 5am)’, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2006 Hopkins, David, Kevin Henderson ‘Zebra’, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2003
Johnston, Alan, with texts by Nesbitt, Paul, Gooding, Mel, Masheck, Joseph, MacDonald, Murdo, and Hearn, Lafcadio, Haus Wittgenstein, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 1999
Kaehler, Kai, Andrew Kerr, Royal Botanic Garden, 2011
Larrat-Smith, Philip, Nesbitt, Paul and Noltie H.J, Nature Study Louise Bourgeois John Hutton Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2008
Larrat-Smith and Nesbitt, Paul, Joan Mitchell, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2010
Leu, Suzanne and Elliot, Fiona, Robert Ryman, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2006
Morgan, Susan, Laura Owens- ‘New Work’ John Hutton Balfour- ‘Botanical Teaching Diagrams’, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2000
Morton, Victoria, Wright Richard, Victoria Morton, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2011
Gooding, Mel, Callum Innes, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 1996
Nesbitt, Paul and Gooding, Mel, Myron Stout ‘Apollo’, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 1998
Introductory text by Nesbitt, Paul, Smith/ Stewart ‘Enter Love and Enter Death’, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2009
Tomkins, Sue, Sue Tomkins ‘Long Hand’, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2011
Noltie, H. J., Robert Wight and The Botanical Drawings of Rungiah and Govindoo, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2007
Noltie, H.J., The Dapuri Drawings- Alexander Gibson and the Bombay Botanic Gardens, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2002
Noltie H.J. Indian Botanical Drawings, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 1999
References
- ^ Botanic Garden Edinburgh, The Royal. "Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh". Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
- ^ http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst8730.html
- ^ Fletcher, Harold R., Brown William H, The Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, Edinburgh, 1970, pp 256
- ^ http://www.rbge.org.uk/the-gardens/edinburgh/inverleith-house
- ^ http://www.rbge.org.uk/the-gardens/edinburgh/inverleith-house